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NCT ID: NCT02475408 Recruiting - Clinical trials for Coronary Artery Disease

Effect of Permanent Internal Mammary Artery Occlusion on Extracardiac Coronary Collateral Supply

IMAO
Start date: December 2014
Phase: Phase 1/Phase 2
Study type: Interventional

Coronary artery disease and the benefit of bypasses: Despite considerable advances in medicine, cardiovascular diseases remain the number one cause of death globally, primarily consequence of myocardial infarction (MI). Coronary collaterals exert a protective effect by providing an alternative source of blood flow to a myocardial territory potentially affected by an acute coronary occlusion. Coronary collaterals represent pre-existing inter-arterial anastomoses and as such are the natural counter-part of surgically created bypasses. Sufficient coronary collaterals have been shown to confer a significant benefit in terms of overall mortality and cardiovascular events. In this regard, the concept of augmenting coronary collateral function as an alternative treatment strategy to alter the course of CAD, as well as to control symptoms, is attractive. Durable promotion of coronary collateral circulation: Before the advent of coronary artery bypass grafting, permanent augmentation of coronary collateral supply by a single structural modification has already been attempted. Bilateral ligation of the internal mammary arteries (IMA) was performed in CAD patients to alleviate angina pectoris and electrocardiographic (ECG) signs of ischemia. The prevalent in vivo function of natural IMA-to-coronary artery bypasses and their anti-ischemic effect has - for the first time - been recently demonstrated by our research group. The acute functional changes observed in response to temporary distal IMA balloon occlusion are expected to result in larger chronic structural adaptations of the IMA-to-coronary-artery connections when the distal IMA is permanently occluded. In contrast to the previously employed arteriogenic approaches in humans, the attractiveness of such an intervention lies in the potential durability of the effect. In a first step, catheter-based IMA occlusion ought to be conceptually investigated in the setting of the less frequently grafted right IMA among patients with ischemia in the right coronary artery territory.